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Görg warns that throwing around subsidies will not change long-term investment decisions

21st March 2023
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Last August, United States President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), with ensuring the US’s role as the global leader in clean energy technology, manufacturing and innovation as one of its main goals. The IRA’S tax incentives and investment programs supported by massive US government subsidies may increase the attractiveness of the US to many more multinationals, including those from Europe[...]

State Aid can Produce Unintended Losers

23rd February 2023
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Earlier this month, the European Commission proposed to transform the State Aid Temporary Crisis Framework to facilitate the green transition in Europe. One main policy focus of the proposed Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework is to relax the strict state aid rules in the EU, in order to facilitate “the roll-out of renewable energies and to support the decarbonisation of the industry”[...]

Kiel Focus: “Germany’s Planned China Strategy Is the Wrong Approach”

26th January 2023
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How should we engage with China? That question is currently being widely debated. Just a decade ago, the EU and China concluded the EU–China 2020 Strategic Agenda for Cooperation, which aimed at promoting a wide-ranging strategic partnership involving broad-based bilateral cooperation across a variety of areas. Although frequently modified, long-term cooperation was the foundation of bilateral relations between the partners[...]

Görg: “The Supply Chain Law has become a Bureaucracy Monster”

2nd January 2023
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Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D. (President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy & Managing Director of Kiel Centre for Globalization) comments on the Supply Chain Due Diligence Act, which comes into force on January 1, 2023.
"The Law has become a bureaucracy monster that neither promotes its acceptance among the companies affected nor has much to do with the basic idea of the Law. Companies with more than 3,000 employees currently have to slog through and answer a 400-question catalog from the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control[...]

Görg on G20: “The Fine Words Must Now Finally be Followed by Action.”

21st November 2022
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In 2008 the G20 Summit was held for the first time in response to the worldwide financial and economic crisis. Since then the G20 Summit was held annually. The latest G20 Summit took place in Bali, Indonesia on Nov. 15-16, 2022. The G20 shall serve as a crucial forum for fostering global economic cooperation. The multidimensional crises and rising protectionism, and geopolitical tensions particularly in the recent past have posed a serious challenge to the G20, its functionality and its relevance for global governance[...]

Görg Emphasised “German Companies Must Continue to Innovate” in a new GTAI Export Analysis

15th September 2022
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Against the background of a continuously rising global market competition, Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI) published its new export analysis on September 9, 2022 to provide an up-to-date overview of German exporters’ competitiveness in an international comparison. The report focuses on Germany’s four leading sectors, incl. mechanical engineering, automotive, chemicals and the electronics/digital industry. It aims at analyzing[...]

F.A.Z Interview with Holger Görg on a New Moral Issue in Globalization

30th May 2022
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Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine there have been increasingly intensive discussions about a possible European ban on imports of oil and/or gas from Russia. But considering the strong reliance of many European countries, incl. Germany, on imported energy from Russia, no such decision is made by the EU until now[...]

Görg Gave an Interview on the Impact of China’s 20-year WTO Membership and on China-Germany Economic Relations

13th January 2022
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In late 2021, China celebrated the 20th anniversary of its WTO membership. On December 11, 2001 China became the 143rd member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) after a long-lasting negotiation process and large-scale economic reforms to fulfil the accession requirements. Through China’s WTO accession, it became – formally and institutionally – an important part of the multilateral trading system[...]

Aoife Hanley discusses Chances and Challenges of China’s Energy Transition for German SMEs

8th November 2021
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According to the Paris Agreement negotiated at the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP21, in 2015 and signed afterwards, the countries involved are expected to give updated national pledges every five years to enhance their nationally determined contributions to help limit the greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change. First such official updates are thus expected at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, that is currently held in Glasgow in United Kingdom[...]

KCG Managing Director Holger Görg is Invited to Join a Hearing on Supply Chain Law Today

28th April 2021
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Today there will be a hearing on “Supply Chain Law” in the Environment and Agriculture Committee of the State Parliament of Schleswig-Holstein. Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D. (KCG Managing Director) is invited to provide his views on this topic. In total, 16 experts and representatives of environmental and development organisations as well as industry/business associations are expected to share their opinion on the topic from various aspects at the hearing[...]

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